Headgear



Mamh 1B, 1941 E. L. SUSSER HEADGEAR Filed April 29, 1940 2 Sheets'Sheet 1 fr: uenior Attorney Patented Mar. 18, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HEADGEAR Esther L. Susser, Jersey City, N. J.

Application April 29, 1940, Serial No. 332,364

3 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in headgears of the type designed to be contracted or constricted on the head of the wearer, and the primary object of my invention is to provide headgear of the character indicated which involves a head covering hood or envelope which in its relaxed condition affords substantially little conformance to the head of the wearer, which hood or envelope in its contracted or constricted condition conforms substantially to the contours of at least several areas of the head of the wearer. Another important object of the invention is to enable making ladies halts from washable and r soft fabrics different in shape and size from the head of the wearer, the said hats involving a novel arrangement of releasable draw-string whereby close conformability of certain portions of the hat with corresponding areas of the head of the wearer may be predetermined and maintained while the hat is in service, the drawstring arrangement being releasable to enable laundering the hat in its original form.

Other important objects and advantages of my invention will be apparent from a reading of r the following description and the appended drawings, wherein for purposes of illustration, a preferred embodiment of the invention is shown.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevational view showing the embodiment being worn.

Figure 2 is an enlarged rear elevational View of the embodiment.

Figure 3 is a left-hand side elevational view.

Figure 4 is a transverse vertical sectional view, and

Figure 5 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the numeral 5 generally designates the embodiment which takes the form of a hood or envelope 6 which may be made of one or several pieces of flexible material of suitably decorative character in an upwardly tapering shape involving a substantially continuous head encircling side wall I and a top 8 connecting the upper edges of the side wall. An oval orown opening 9 is formed in the back of the wall I and through the lower edge ll] of the side wall or terminating in spaced relation .to the lower edge In as indicated by the 1 numeral ll, thereby defining a narrow connecting strip 2. The strip may be made of the same material as the hood but is preferably elastic in character to enable enlarging the opening 9 to accept the backhair of the wearer and to produce N better conformance of this part of the hood with the back of the neck of the wearer in cooperation with the constriction of the hood by the drawing and tying together of the front and rear draw-strings l3 and 14, respectively. Darts iii are formed in the material of the hood 5 above the upper part of the opening 9 to provide for expansion of this part of the hood to promote conformance with the head of the wearer.

The front draw-string I3 is secured at its lower end as indicated by the numeral l5 on the inside 10 of the center of the front of the hood and passes upwardly along this part of the side wall 1 through a tube I'l defined by a suitably formed strip l8 sewed to the inside of the hood and terminating underneath the middle of the top 8. The rear draw-string I4 is similarly anchored to the inside of the rear of the hood adjacent the upper edge of the crown opening 9 and passes upwardly along this portion of the side wall and across the underside of the top 8 through the tube I9, where the draw-string l4 emerges. The desired constriction is given the hood and maintained therein by tying the exposed portions of the draw-strings together as shown after having pulled them out to the desired extent. When it 25 is desired to :put the hat through laundering or other operations, the draw-strings are united so that the hood 6 is free to resume its original shape.

It is obvious that various decorative effects may be achieved by shaping and by adding material to the hood 6 as exemplified at 20. The lower edge [0 of the hood may be shaped for better fit or for other purposes particularly at the rear of the hood as indicated by the numeral 20.

Although I have shown and described herein a preferred embodiment of the invention, it is to be understood that I do not wish to limit the application of the invention thereto except as may be required by the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having described the claimed as new is:

1. A head covering of the character described, said head covering comprising a hood to accept the head of the wearer, a first draw-string secured at its lower end to the inside of the lower part of the front of the hood and extending upwardly along the inside of the front of the hood, a second draw-string secured at its lower end to the inside of the lower part of the back of the hood and extending upwardly along the inside of the back of the hood, and means securing the upper ends of said draw-strings across the top invention, what is of the hood Ito constrict the hood on 'the head of the wearer.

2. A head covering in accordance with claim 1 wherein said back of the hood is formed with a crown opening, and a strip of elastic secured to opposite sides of the lower pant of said crown opening drawing said opposite sides of the opening toward each other.

3. A head covering in accordance with claim 1 wherein retainers secured along the inner sides of the hood hold said draw-strings in place along the side wall and under the 420p of said hood.

ESTHER L. SUSSER. 

